Ok I promised a couple weeks back that I'd try to get pictures of my M5OD while I was playing with my drain plugs. Well..these are the images I got just before I threw the center floorpan back into place. One (Backed off image) is from the passenger side looking down at the top of the M5OD transmission. The other is a top view looking straight down at it from the center of the vehicle (thank you LCD screen). The centered image is also basically to show people the plugs up close. You can see how dirty my transmission was from this. Plugs are sealed, no more leaks. ^_^

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In the close up, you can see my fabricated bolt head on the bolt I stripped the crap out of. I now have 9 Metric 12 bolts, and a 9/16 bolt. ^_^ I figured I'd put it where it could be grabbed easily. Also, the two bolts at the very bottom in the close up picture, those are the ones that go straight into the case. All the other are in the outer part and are sealed. If you ever need to put fluid in, you can put fluid in through those two bottom-most bolts and be able to get fluid up a bit more. My 4 quarts of ATF filled the transmission all the way up so that the drain plug is ALMOST covered completely..so..

Sorry I couldn't find the camera to document every step of the process, but at least this should help you people who would like to see what has to happen.

LEAVE YOUR TRUCK IN NEUTRAL. I learned this the hard way...

EDIT: Oh yeah, forgot. If you go in to do this...grab a can of brake or carb cleaner to be able to clean the surface of the transmission off. I wish I had. Also, it makes it easier when messing around with putting it on or taking it off, don't have to worry about gunk getting in the tranny.